Natural sleep is a simple and easy way to help the body stay strong and healthy. All that is needed is a little willingness, a little determination and perseverance.

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The Bedouins do not feel the need to lie around motionless in the hot sun for hours on end; they do their work and moving around early in the morning or in the evening. We can also take a look at animals and their habits to see whether such exposure is beneficial. In fact, no animal, domestic or wild stays in the direct sunlight when it is hot, preferring instead to seek a shady spot or half-shade.

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What is yogurt? One usually receives the answer that it is a kind of curdled milk. In a certain sense this is correct, the difference being that ordinary sour milk contains approximately 6 g of lactic acid per litre while yogurt contains only about 2 g.

Lactic fermentation does play an important part in the preparation of yogurt, but its particular properties and flavour are due to the Maya bacillus, which works in symbiotic association with the ordinary oriental lactic acid bacillus.

Is yogurt better for you than ordinary sweet milk? Sweet milk coagulates in the stomach into curd. The same process is used in making cheese, when rennet from the stomach of calves is added to warm milk, which then turns into curd. The process of turning milk into curds imposes quite a bit of work on the stomach, which it accomplishes only insufficiently, or not at all, if there is a disturbance in the secretion of the gastric fluids or if the stomach lacks tone. Some people find it difficult to digest sweet milk if the stomach is not performing well. On the other hand, most people can tolerate yogurt or sour milk, the reason being that yogurt enters the stomach in a predigested form, that is, a fine curd. Proof of this can be seen when a child vomits after having drunk some milk and the milk returns in big white lumps, whereas yogurt or sour milk is brought up as a flaky fluid.

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It is hoped that the practice of spraying poisons, chemical pesticides, will eventually stop as there is the possibility of using harmless biological pesticides that will help increase the yield of crops without the risk of harming the consumer. However, such harmless products can only be discovered if an effort is made to find them, as is the case with natural remedies as opposed to chemical ones.

Experiments carried out with herbal sprays, containing extracts of horsetail (shave grass), yarrow and nasturtium have given very satisfactory results and trials are continuing. We also recommend spraying with tobacco extract because it is organic and much less hazardous than chemical sprays.

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These suggestions give you an idea of how to plan your breakfast according to the season and the availability of fruit, as well as your own preferences.

An occasional fruit juice breakfast is beneficial, and grape, orange or grapefruit juice can be recommended. Grapefruit juice is especially good because it stimulates the kidneys, the liver and the entire glandular system.

In cases of impaired liver function take 100—200 ml (about 4-8 fl. oz) of pure, raw carrot juice and a slice of buttered crispbread sprinkled with wheat germ, rather than sweet fruit dishes such as fruit salad with citrus fruits. Muesli with apples is permissible too. If this does not satisfy you, sandwiches as described under ‘Supper’ can supplement your breakfast.

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It has been discovered that once the appendix has been removed the bowels become more sensitive. This alone indicates that an operation should be resorted to only when really necessary. Even then, a person should proceed with caution and seek a competent and conscientious surgeon, to be sure that the operation will be performed with the utmost care, because second operations have at times been necessary when an instrument or a piece of bandage was left inside the patient. However, such carelessness and negligence can only happen if those responsible for the blunder are not equal to the high standards of their profession.

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You may find it possible to put the cares of the day out of your mind when in bed by reading an upbuilding book or a magazine article. If one reads for long enough, it will usually lead to drowsiness and sleep.

In cases where you have overtaxed your brain, making the back of the head feel tense and painful, it is helpful to massage the aching area with the fingertips. This gentle massage generally relaxes the tension and induces sleep. Cold water can also help to dispeltension, and a Kuhne treatment is often successful in relaxing the body. Brush massages can also be effective, and even fresh air will often help.

Anything that stimulates the circulation, driving the blood back to the external areas, helps to induce sleep, since insomnia is often caused by too much blood in the brain. Our busy life today lacks balance; we often overtax our minds and do not provide enough exercise for our bodies.

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In mountain valleys, however, a deficiency of iodine is often found in the population. The explanation for this may lie in the fact that the water rushes along so rapidly that it carries away large amounts of dissolved iodine instead of restoring it to the soil, as it is able to do in the flatlands.

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